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What air travel will be like by 1964 no man can tell. But President Getulio Vargas of Brazil is sure of one thing: last week, through his Communications Ministry, he contracted with Zeppelin Co. for 20 transatlantic Zeppelin trips a year for 30 years. To seal the bargain he set aside a credit of 11,000 contos ($940,000) to help Zeppelin Co. build a hangar...
...where Secretary Swanson explained that under a law passed in 1918. no foreigners may own real estate in Guam. The Japanese had just transferred his property to his daughter-in-law, a U. S. citizen, and now everybody was happy. ¶ Foreign Minister Hirota next turned his attention to Brazil. Japanese emigrants have been flocking to Brazil in late years. More than 150,000 of them are settled there on little farms, growing rice and mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian Congress to amend the Constitution...
...Brazilian government . . . discriminates against Japanese immigrants, it will have a serious bearing and, at the same time, cast a dark shadow upon the friendly relations between Brazil and Japan...
...Harvard last year as a visiting lecturer, was arrested in Cambridge on January 5, 1933 at the instigation of Baron von Tippleskirch, the German Consul. Hitler authorities claim he is Dr. Isaak Lewin, German banker who absconded in 1929, and was traced to South America. He was arrested in Brazil, but was discharged before the extradition papers were received from Germany...
...Winkler, foreign bond expert, flayed many details of the pact, claiming that since the U. S. buys 70% of Brazil's annual coffee exports, U. S. creditors deserved better treatment. And no sooner were the terms of the decree published than British bondholders also began to grumble...